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GRITtv: From Baghdad to Brooklyn

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Last December, videojournalist Jennifer Utz and Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee, talked about Mohamed's journey from Iraq to the U.S. This week, our Got Docs feature is Jennifer's documentary in production, "From Baghdad to Brooklyn," telling Mohamed's story, from his exile from Iraq after Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the killing of homosexuals "in the worst, most severe way possible." Mohamed, who is gay, wound up in Syria, where Jennifer met him and took up his cause. Mohamed's story may have ended happily, but over a million Iraqis are still displaced.

GRITtv: Nov. 12, 2009

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Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question. Rose Aguilar, John R. MacArthur, Dan Gross and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss this and other media questions in our Thursday segementt. "Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," Deirdre Summerbell says. She's the founder of Project Air, where she uses yoga to help women and girls in Rwanda, survivors of the genocide, reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits.

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